CVE-2013-0269
The JSON gem before 1.5.5, 1.6.x before 1.6.8, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7 for Ruby allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or bypass the mass assignment protection
02 Description
The JSON gem before 1.5.5, 1.6.x before 1.6.8, and 1.7.x before 1.7.7 for Ruby allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) or bypass the mass assignment protection
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 13.91% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2013-02-13 01:00Z13 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 14:18Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-12-06
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 298dc1a13bf04c412adee25684fa81019532a256bdc1165ca9b67fdf6b3db5a5
05 Affected products
06 References
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2013:0701http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0701.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2013:0603http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00034.html
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2013-10-22-5http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00006.html
- www.slackware.comSSA:2013-075-01http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2013&m=slackware-security.426862
- secunia.com52774http://secunia.com/advisories/52774
- spreecommerce.comhttp://spreecommerce.com/blog/multiple-security-vulnerabilities-fixed
- groups.google.com[rubyonrails-security] 20130211 Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON [CVE-2013-0269]https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/d8e0db6e08c81428?dmode=source&output=gplain
- www.osvdb.org90074http://www.osvdb.org/90074
- puppet.comhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0269
- secunia.com52902http://secunia.com/advisories/52902
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2013:0686http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0686.html
- www.securityfocus.com57899http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57899
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20130211 Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON [CVE-2013-0269]http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/11/7
- www.zweitag.dehttp://www.zweitag.de/en/blog/ruby-on-rails-vulnerable-to-mass-assignment-and-sql-injection
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20130211 Patch update for [CVE-2013-0269]http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/11/8
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-1733-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1733-1
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2013:0609http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00001.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2013:1028http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1028.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comjson-ruby-security-bypass(82010)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82010
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2013:1147http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1147.html
- weblog.rubyonrails.orghttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/2/11/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-12-3-1-11-and-2-3-17-have-been-released/
- secunia.com52075http://secunia.com/advisories/52075
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2013:0647http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00015.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ruby-json Fixed in 1.7.3-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- ruby-json Fixed in 1.7.3-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- ruby-json Fixed in 1.7.3-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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